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Meta Translation Golf - Welcome!

In an effort to drum up activity (given we haven't had any in over a week), I present the first translation golf! Before entering, please read the ground rules. The aim of the game is to translat...

8 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by Karl Knechtel‭

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Meta Should translation questions be considered off-topic?

I realize that we don't have an official stance on translation questions, so I am looking for community feedback. Should translation questions of words/phrases be considered off-topic?

3 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 5mo ago by Eric Isaac‭

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Meta Mixed fonts within a sentence (and proposed fixes)

The problem Currently, there are no fonts listed for languages other than English. This leads to an issue I see a lot - mixed fonts. (looking at you, Google Translate) Take a simple Japanese sent...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Should posting on Meta affect reputation?

When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorr...

0 answers  ·  posted 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Reactions are here! Suggestions?

Reactions are officially here! Reactions are another way for the community to give feedback on a post; for more information, see this Meta post. I've disabled the default "Works for me", "Outdate...

3 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by fedorqui‭

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Meta Can I ask for resources?

This site has the category Resources which will grow over time with great posts. But what if I want to get some of these resources? I mean, how can I suggest one? Let me be specific: I want to im...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 2y ago by fedorqui‭

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Meta Policy Poll: "Did you try Googling"?

A certain question has twice now been hit by the dreaded "You can find this information by Google" I've noticed this has occurred quite frequently, especially link-only answers which I delete as a...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Lundin‭

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Meta How can we grow this community?

Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged p...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Keelan‭

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Meta How to deal with questions on English grammar and usage

Languages & Linguistics has been getting some questions about relatively basic issues in the English language. There's nothing wrong with these questions as such, but they don't really fit the ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by gmcgath‭

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Meta Moderator tags are not highlighted with red.

While looking at Languages & Linguistics Meta, modreator tags (e.g status-completed) appear to be not highlighted with red. When you look at other meta site (e.g: Codidact Meta), they are red....

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by sau226‭

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Meta Wiki posts are here; do we want to use them?

We now have a "Wiki" post type Essentially, wiki posts are articles, but with a lower bar for editing; Unlike with other post types, anybody with the Participate Everywhere privilege can edit t...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Split off Linguistics into a site category?

So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of...

4 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by curiousdannii‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Styling language tags

(Continued discussion of a specific idea from What tag hierarchy and ontology should Linguistics use?) As you've probably noticed, we have the ability to put style tags differently. For example, t...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Meta Are questions on linguistics of "languages" like music, math, or coding on-topic?

NB: I know very little about linguistics. What is a "language" that questions about it would be on-topic here? Encyclopedia Britannica defines a language as "a system of conventional spoken, manua...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by DonielF‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by curiousdannii‭

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Meta What tag hierarchy and ontology should Linguistics use?

I was surprised with joy when I saw that Codidact allows tag hierarchies: A tag can have one or more children, and when you search on a tag you can either search just that tag or also search its...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by fedorqui‭  ·  edited 3y ago by fedorqui‭

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Meta Crowdsourced font stack for Languages & Linguistics

A continuation of my previous post. Crowdsourced font stack for Languages & Linguistics I am currently working on crafting font stacks for each script; see the draft pull request here: https:...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Are conlang (artificially constructed natural languages) questions on topic?

A major aspect to some people of building imaginary worlds is to come up with an artificial language for the people in that world; often referred to as "conlangs" for "constructed languages". Are q...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Meta Do we want capitalized tags?

So, the general consensus on Should we allow capitalized tags? seems to be yes. The obvious next questions is, do we, the Language community, want them? Since we've recently gotten the [Thai] tag, ...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by tommi‭

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Meta How should we customize the Resources category?

I have created the Resources category, as requested. There are a couple customizations available that I have left blank for now: The short description at the top of the list. (Override of) help t...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Is posting links to commercial content as part of a resource post allowed?

I'm currently working on the Ancient Greek resources page. There are several textbooks I've used and found useful, as well as various other resources that are not open source. What should our polic...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Sigma‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Meta Are resource requests on-topic?

Should questions asking for resources be on-topic? I imagine questions of the form, "Resources for learning language X" or "Grammar reference for language X" or "Free online English-Language X dict...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by user53100‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta What should this site's short description say?

The site list has a short description of each community. This description is sometimes also used in ads. It's outward-facing, what you want people who aren't already here to know. Some examples:...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Welcome to Languages and Linguistics!

Welcome to the Codidact site for Languages and Linguistics! We're glad you're here and we're excited to see what you will build. This community is starting "from scratch", without importing Q&amp...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭